Connecticut western news., 1887-02-16
HERE AND THERE.

Mount Holyoke female seminary will celebrate its semi centennial anniversary next June.
 The Pittsfeld Eagle says: "Ice is thirty inches thick and there's enough and to spare
 New maple sugar is in the market at 20 cents pound-PiNsfeld Eaqze. Re- melted to obliterate the fly specks.
 Sheriff Swift, of the Warren House in Watertown has leased the Branford Point House for three years.
 A new Catholic church to be built of stone is to be erected in Amenia, N. Y., in place of the one destroyed by light ming last summer.
 A Putnam woman, 39 years old, is the mother of eighteen children. She has been so busy that she has never had time to think about divorce.
 William H. Stevenson, for nearly five years superintendent of the New York division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, has resigned to accept more responsible place.
 It is reported that the new five dollar silver certificates will be ready for issue soon. The new notes contain vignette of General Grant on the face and fac similes of five silver dollars on the back.
 Sam Jones says, ''If you steal five dollars they'll put you in jail, but if you steal ten dollars they'll call you colonel" How so many southerners obtained their military titles is no long CT mystery.
 MT. David D. Vincent, well-known resident of Duchess county, N. Y., and father of supervisor Isaac Vincent, died at his residence in Glove, town of Union Vale, on Feb 5, in the 77th year of his age.
 Prices in Bridgewater:-Burr Mallett has sold his large crop of tobacco to James Pitcher for eight cents, Freder- ick Peck for seven cents, Peter Wooster for five cents, Daniel Garfield one crop for five cents, Starr Kinney of North l vile for one cent per pound. Hon Thomas Russell, ex-Judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts and member of the board of railroad com missioners, died at Boston last Wednes- day morning after an illness of two weeks. He was 61 years old and a native of Plymouth.
 The farmers of Western Connecticut are giving increased attention each year to the growing of small fruits for market and find the venture in almost every instance profitable one. Quite 8 number of tobacco fields in the Hous- atomic valley will this year be turned over to the culture of raspberries and strawberries. .--Bridgeport Fd1mer. 1 An Iowa railroad conductor who found a pocketbook containing $250 and hunted up the owner, who proved to be an aged granger, and his wife, was met with this remark from the old lady: ''It was good thing some one see you pick it up or we never would have got it again. .''-Erchange. Heaven keep and mortals pity the husband of such an ungrateful woman.
 It has not yet been decided whether the Litchfeld county court house shall be erected at Litchfield, New Milford or Winsted. An exten- sion of the Shepaug road from Litch- field through Torrington to 8 point on the Connecticut Western railroad, either at New Hartford or Collinsville, has been favorably voted upon by bond holders and representatives of syndi- cate who are interested in the Shepaug deal. The extension it is claimed would materially affect the county seat ques- tion.-BridgepoT Standard
 The fire last Friday morning in the Nathaniel Wheeler Works at Bridge port caused loss to the D. M. Read Dry goods Company of $35, ,0O0; Con. cordia Singing Society, $3,OOO; Jewish Synagogue, $500; St. George Society, $500; Seymour & Seymour, lawyers, $lO0; A McWooster, patents, $1OO Miss Cowie, dressmaker, $1O0; Bridge port Gas Light Company, $10O, and on building, $S,OO0. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The principal domage was by water, as the building was flooded. The origin of the fire is unknown.
 A fire broke out on Saturday night in the building occupied by B. A. Nellis as rag sorting and storehouse. Con- siderable damage was done to the build ing, but had it occurred during the gale on Friday night nothing could have saved it and adjoining frame buildings The fire laddies done nobly When you meet Dwight Phelps be sure you call him grandpa. No cards. The new Freemason's grip is being indulged in on the Flat, and when we saw Geo. White with his hand in sling we thought he was another victim
 A love sick school teacher in Winsted when asked which was the most impor tant river in the world mistook the question for, which is the most impor tant woman in the world |? He turned several different colors, but refused tc tell Winsted Weekly Adcer7iser.